Friday, January 31, 2014

For my portfolio class this semester I've decided to start working on a new two person dialogue shot. I set out to find a sound clip that was appealing and featured a kid (as I have never ever animated a child before)

I ended up settling on the following clip from Bridge to Terabithia:

I then spent some time thinking about the back-story for my characters (Which is where the wonderful Rex Grignon and Todd Waring taught me to always start a shot). The little girl, Jenny, is an extremely hyperactive child who no one can keep up with. She has worn out several babysitters with her large imagination and boundless energy. Her new babysitter is Sara. Sara is extremely disinterested in baby sitting and begins the shot texting a boy she is very interested in. As Jenny's explanation gets more big and bizarre Sara is slowly drawn away from texting and ends the shot fully paying attention to Jenny.

I shot some reference, but as it is with any reference worth using it is far too embarrassing to share.

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

I have been away from this blog for quite awhile, and a lot has and has not changed since I was last here. I graduated Animation Mentor in 2010!

I'm returning to my blog to chronicle my final semester at CSU Chico. After graduating AM I decided to return to school to finish my BA in English Literature as well as to continue my education in Animation. I'm thrilled to say I will be graduating at the end of this semester with botha BA in English Literature and a BS in Applied Computer Graphics (which is basically the Chico academic name for animation and video game design).

I will be linking to my current demo reel at the end of this week, and hope to keep everyone updated as I progress through new animations during the upcoming semester.

Thoughts to live by, from some of my heros:

"Adults are only kids grown up"- Walt Disney

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -Theodor Seuss Geisel

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You." -Theodor Seuss Geisel (Happy Birthday to You!)

"I'm still astonished that somebody would offer me a job and pay me to do what I wanted to do." -Chuck Jones

"Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity."-Chuck Jones

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter." -Oscar Wilde